Arte Público Press

Some Clarifications y otros poemas (Sept., $10.95) by Javier O. Huerta explores dislocation, loss and love from the perspective of a first-generation Mexican-American immigrant.

Boa Editions

Peeping Tom's Cabin (Sept.; $17, cloth $22) by X.J. Kennedy offers the first light verse collection from the noted poet.

Calyx Books

Far Beyond Triage (Oct., $14.95) by Sarah Lantz. This debut collection of spiritual poetry explores the longings of the soul.

Cinco Puntos Press

The Resurrection of Bert Ringold (Oct., $13.95) by Harvey Goldner collects verse from a Sunday cab driver in Seattle.

Copper Canyon Press

Letters to Yesenin (Nov., $12) by Jim Harrison follows a month of poetic correspondence between an American poet considering suicide and a Russian poet who did it.

Dalkey Archive

Contemporary Russian Poetry (Jan.; $14.95, cloth $34.95), edited by Evgeny Bunimovich, collects works by 44 Russian poets born after 1945.

Dufour Editions

This Is How You Disappear: A Book of Elegies (Jan., $27.95) by Jeremy Reed bears witness to the dead and missing friends who influenced the author's life.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse (Sept., $15), selected and with an introduction by Ted Hughes, revisits Shakespeare's verse, sonnets and songs.

I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems (Oct., $16) by Pablo Neruda, edited by Ilan Stavans. Some of the works selected have previously been unavailable in English.

Harvard Univ. Press

The Canon: The Original One Hundred and Fifty-four Poems (Sept., $24.95) by C.P. Cavafy contains the original Greek with a new English translation by Stratis Haviaris.

Holy Cow! Press

(dist. by Consortium)

One-Breasted Woman (Sept., $15.95) by Susan Deborah King illuminates the author's diagnosis, treatment and survival of breast cancer.

Marsh Hawk Press

The Light Sang as It Left Your Eyes (Sept., $24.95) by Eileen R. Tabios combines poetry and biography.

Northwestern Univ. Press

Quickly Changing River: Poems (Feb., $14.95) by Meena Alexander evokes the power and frailty of being alive.

W.W. Norton

Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition (Nov., $24.95), trans. by Seamus Heaney, features more than 100 full-page illustrations.

Persea Books

Stroke (Feb., $14) by Sidney Wade portrays humanity's foibles, particularly those of a certain dubiously elected president.

Sarabande Books

Epistles (Oct., $13.95) by Mark Jarman evokes the style of Paul's Letters to the Corinthians in these modern prose poems. Author tour.

Tia ChuCha Press

(dist. by Northwestern Univ. Press)

American Jesus: Poems (Oct., $13.95) by Richard Vargas explores the high and low points in a Chicano man's existence.

Tupelo Press

Dismal Rock (Oct., $16.95) by Davis McCombs ranges from tobacco farming to Dante, fishing to Bob Marley.

Spill (Sept., $16.95) by Michael Chitwood follows a pilgrim's path from childhood to adulthood.

Univ. of Arkansas Press

Outlaw Style: Poems (Nov., $16) by R.T. Smith delves into the traditions of Southern music and the story of John Wilkes Booth.

Univ. of Georgia Press

Bouquet of Hungers (Oct., $17.95) by Kyle Dargan examines an American stifled by dogmas and inept social categories.

Univ. of Pittsburgh Press

After the Fall: Poems Old and New (Oct., $14) by Edward Field collects verses that blend thoughtfulness and playfulness.

Univ. of Virginia Press

Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers (Nov., $11.95), edited by Natasha Tretheway, gathers works from poets who have not yet published a full-length book.

Wave Books

(dist. by Consortium)

No Real Light (Sept., $14) by Joe Wenderoth collects new work from a subversive cultural critic.

West End Press

(dist. by Univ. of New Mexico Press)

Indian Trains (Nov., $11.95) by Erika T. Wurth celebrates a new tribe: unsung mixed blood Indians of modern America.